As I wrote in my post last week, I have been playing a bit with how to back up to Amazon S3 on Ubuntu. The simplest method of doing so is to use Duplicity, which have built-in support for backing up to a S3 bucket. That means that the only thing you have to do [...]
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pc_user updated
I have just uploaded a new version of the user authentication library, pc_user. It does not contain major changes – only a security improvement which could have resulted in a SQL injection attack if the parameters given to the library was not cleaned prior to passing it to the library. The new release fixes this [...]
dotDK is not going to administer .dk
Finally.
After months of waiting on the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency to make their final decision on who is going to administer the .dk TLD, they finally announced that it is not going to be dotDK afterall. As it turned out, they were unable to gain the needed support from the Danish Internet community [...]
Adobe launches Flash Linux x64, makes The Daily Show and The Colbert Report play
Via Miia Ranta’s Blog I discovered that Adobe launched a Flash Linux plugin for the x64 architecture. The fastest way to install it on a Ubuntu 8.10 system is to download the package flashplugin-nonfree – 10.0.12.36ubuntu2~ppa1 from Kees Cook’s PPA. But if installing it, be warned [...]
Blog down for several days
What should not have happened happened anyway. The dedicated server hoster I had signed up with was not as reliable and serious as I thought. So I had to move to another server (which took two weeks to set up, damn). All this caused the blog to be down for a long time, and a [...]